I resisted signing up for Facebook believing it was for teenagers or people who had more time to waste than I did. How wrong was I, and I realise now I should have moved forward with Facebook sooner than I did.

As you are all aware by now I have built two businesses slowly, starting with Motivational Steps in 2001 and then I founded the Small Business Community Network in 2003. Both of my businesses are connected, they compliment each other in the sense that I did not diversify to something completely different. This means my time can be spent productively working on both businesses.

My business sense is instinctive, other than completing a one year basic business internship course I have no formal training or background in the business world. I am a people person, I like finding out about people, and first and foremost I have always liked to help people. I learn by doing, I find out how other people have become successful and I take from them what works for me. Why reinvent the wheel?

I believe we are born net-workers, from the time we are born we are connecting to our family, friends, significant other, people we work with, we just do not think of it as work or as networking. The minute we are told you have to network to build your connections in order to build your business we gasp and we fight the good fight and we resist. Resistance is futile we all end up doing it in the end.

In all honestly I have never resisted, I am a social butterfly, always have been and I was born to network. My first experiences at social networking were not as successful as I would have liked, but I was building my first business and, like most people did not have a lot of spare time and felt that spending too much time online connecting might lose me work eleswhere.

The amazing thing is though, it is never too late! For me or for you! Embrace social networking now, if you are not already doing it and if you are, but you are finding you are not enjoying it or it is not reaping the rewards you expected, take a step back and slow down.

I am here to help you, I am not an expert, I am an ordinary person who enjoys social networking and have the time to pass on some tips to you, if you want them, about what worked for me. You can then take from what I offer to you and use the bits you like and throw out the bits you don’t.

Check back here soon to find out how social networking can definitely be fun, easy and lead you to the next level of success you know you want.